PCI DSS Practice Question: What is the purpose of audit trails under PCI DSS? | CyberCertPrep
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What is the purpose of audit trails under PCI DSS?
A.To track employee attendance
B.To record and link all access to system components and cardholder data to individual users for accountability and forensic investigation
C.To monitor network bandwidth usage
D.To track software license compliance
Why B is correct
Audit trails provide a chronological record of system activities, enabling reconstruction of events, detection of unauthorized access, and forensic investigation of security incidents involving cardholder data.
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Monitoring Testing
Covers monitoring testing concepts and practices within PCI DSS.
This question belongs to the "Monitoring & Testing" domain, which makes up about 15% of the PCI DSS exam.
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